Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Cnidaria > Subphylum Anthozoa > Class Octocorallia > Order Scleralcyonacea > Superfamily Pennatuloidea > Family Protoptilidae > Genus Protoptilum

Protoptilum thomsonii Kölliker, 1872

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Protoptilum*	Kölliker, 1872	accepted genus name

Literature

original description	Kölliker, A. von. (1872). Anatomisch-systematische Beschreibung der Alcyonarien, Erste Abtheilung: Die Pennatuliden. Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft. 8: 85-275, plates 18-24.
basis of record	Williams, G.C.; van der Land, J. (2001). Octocorallia - Pennatulacea. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels 50: pp. 105-106.
additional source	Williams, G.C. (1999). Index Pennatulacea: annotated bibliography and indexes of the Sea Pens (Coelenterata: Octocorallia) of the World 1469-1999. Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. 51(2): 19-103, 1 fig., 14 plates.
additional source	Deichmann, E. (1936). The Alcyonaria of the western part of the Atlantic Ocean. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard College. 53: 1-317, plates 1-37.
additional source	Cairns, S.D., and Bayer, F.M., 2009. Octocorallia (Cnidaria) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 321–331 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.
additional source	Kükenthal, W. (1915). Pennatularia. Das Tierreich. 43: 1-132.
additional source	Bayer, F. M. (1952). New Western Atlantic records of octocorals (Coelenterata: Anthozoa), with descriptions of three new species. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences. 42(6): 183-189.
additional source	Williams, G.C. (1999). Index Pennatulacea: annotated bibliography and indexes of the Sea Pens (Coelenterata: Octocorallia) of the World 1469-1999. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences. 51(2): 19-103.
additional source	Bayer, F. M. (1954). Anthozoa: Alcyonaria. Fisheries Bulletin of the Fish and Wildlife Service (U.S.). 89: 279-284.
additional source	Bayer, F.M. (1957). Additional records of Western Atlantic octocorals. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences. 47(11): 379-390.
additional source	Jungersen, H.F.E. (1904). Pennatulida. The Danish Ingolf-Expedition. 5(1): 1-95, plates 1-3.
additional source	Williams G.C. (1995). Living genera of sea pens (Coelenterata: Pennatulacea): illustrated key and synopses. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 113, pp. 93-140.

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Citation

McFadden, C.S.; Cordeiro, R.; Samimi-Namin, K.; Williams, G.; van Ofwegen, L. (2025). World List of Octocorallia. Protoptilum thomsonii Kölliker, 1872. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:128528